Conversation & Torah Circles
1:45-3:00

Immigration, ICE, and the Torah’s Call to Protect the Ger
Sanctuary/Livestreamed
Rabbi Saul Berman, Rabbi Mike Moskowitz, Zoe Schonfeld, moderated by Noah Gottschalk

Immigration policy and enforcement are shaping lives and communities across the United States in urgent and often painful ways. What is our responsibility as observant Jews in this moment? This session brings together an immigration lawyer and two rabbinic activists to share stories from the field, reflections from past and present civil rights struggles, and Torah that calls us to protect the ger. Together, we will explore how the Jewish community can respond with moral clarity, courage, and concrete action.

Access the NYC Immigration resource sheet here.

Oscar Nominated Film Screening
Children No More
Frankel
Tirza Leibowitz, Dr. Michelle Friedman

Throughout 2025, participants in silent vigils on Tel Aviv’s streets held up photographs of children from among the at least 17,000 killed in Gaza. This session will be a screening and discussion of Children No More, which moves between demonstrators and passersby, capturing on camera moments of gratitude, perplexity, vitriol, and accusations of betrayal. Viewing this short, intense documentary together opens a conversation about empathy—how it is lost, whether it is enough on its own to demand action, along with other pressing questions.

Teach Your Children Well: Towards an Honest Israel Education Curriculum
Front Room/Zoom
Limor Yaakov Safrai, Gershon Rozenberg, and Hamutal Keinan, moderated by Arnold Franklin

Schools play a crucial role in shaping the ideas and values of future generations. In this session, which will bring together educators and students, we will explore how Israel and its history are presented in the curriculum of Jewish schools in both the US and Israel. We will consider what an honest and nuanced understanding of Israel might look like, and how schools can balance historical complexity with community values.

A Land for All: بلاد للجميع :ארץ לכלם  One Homeland, Two States
Middle Room/Zoom
Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller and Omar Dajani, moderated by Rabbi Shuli Passow

Join Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller and Omar Dajani for a discussion of a Jewish/Palestinian partnership promoting Confederation as a vision for the future of Israel/Palestine. Learn about this peace initiative that is grounded in equality, dignity, and justice for both peoples and how you can get involved.

God as Ger: A Theology of Strangers
Chapel/Livestreamed
Dr. Rabbi Erin Leib Smokler

Anchored in Chasidic commentary, come explore how our tradition relates to gerim and even imagines a God who is one. What are the moral implications of this kind of radical theology?

Access the source sheet here.

Zionism and Nationalism in the Haredi Community
4th floor/Livestreamed
Musya Herzog and Meyer Labin, moderated by Sruli Fruchter

Are Haredim doomed to follow the political far-right? Musya Herzog, who grew up in the Chabad-Lubavitch community, and Meyer Labin, a Hasidic writer and journalist, join Sruli Fruchter for a candid conversation about Israel, Zionism, and the changing political landscape within ultra-Orthodox communities — and what it might take to cultivate a more compassionate and pluralistic vision for the future.

Generative Heartbreak in the Teachings of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
4th floor
Rabbi David Jaffe

This experiential session, based in the teachings of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, will explore how the heartbreak we feel at the current socio-political situation can be used to generate the ratzon/desire needed to power individual and collective action for change.

Access the source sheet here.